Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Woodville’s library lends 0.6 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Allan Shivers Library & Museum serves 20,382 people in and around Woodville. Last year it lent 16K books, movies and e-books and logged 31K visits.
What Woodville’s library is like
Below typical on every measure
Against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people, Allan Shivers Library & Museum sits below the middle on all seven per-resident measures we compare, and in the bottom 30% on six. How it compares ↓
Few residents carry a card
Only 11% of the people the system serves have a library card, against a typical 40% for its size. How it compares ↓
Runs on less money than most
Allan Shivers Library & Museum spends $10 per resident, less than 96% of similar-size libraries (typical: $43). What your card is worth ↓
This summary is written from the numbers on this page. Numbers are the library’s own report to the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024; Allan Shivers Library & Museum serves 20,382 people in and around Woodville, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Woodville’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Woodville is ahead of 78% of U.S. towns. Woodville is graded on two of the three inputs. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; Woodville’s count of community nonprofits pulls it down.
Civic life counts registered nonprofits, library visits and online volunteering groups, so it can miss civic life that runs through congregations, mutual aid or neighbors looking out for each other.
Library visits: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024. Nonprofits: IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, October 2026. Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. How TownRatings grades civic life →
10 community nonprofits are registered in Woodville
3.6 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.
Community nonprofits, by kind
Counted from the IRS list of tax-exempt organizations by mailing address (fractions where a ZIP code spans towns). Congregations are counted apart (4 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
12.3%
12.3% of Woodville’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 5.7% in the typical Texas town and 7.5% nationally.
Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. ZIP-code figures, weighted by where Woodville’s residents live; 2022.
Below most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Allan Shivers Library & Museum serves 20,382 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 7 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Allan Shivers Library & Museum system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
16K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
3,389 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card.
About 2 kids’ programs a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
Find it
Allan Shivers Library & Museum, 302 N Charlton St., Woodville.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Good at every Allan Shivers Library & Museum branch.
New in Woodville? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $1.37 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Woodville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $212K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $290K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $212K budget.
Late fines apply to some overdue items.
Retail prices are typical, rounded down: a new book $17, a kids’ book $12, an e-book or e-audiobook $15, a movie rental $4, a class or program $10, a computer or Wi-Fi session $3. The average cardholder’s month = the library’s yearly loans, attendance and Wi-Fi sessions ÷ its 2,142 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Allan Shivers Library & Museum serves 20,382 people in and around Woodville, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Woodville.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average; libraries are compared with others serving about as many people. How TownRatings uses library figures →
Questions about the library and civic life in Woodville
Does Woodville have a public library?
Yes. Allan Shivers Library & Museum, 302 N Charlton St., serves 20,382 people in and around Woodville (the survey’s count) and is open about 50 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Allan Shivers Library & Museum fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
It charges late fines on some overdue items, and it lends e-books and audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Woodville’s library?
It logged 1.5 visits and lent 0.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Woodville’s civic life grade?
A− Woodville is ahead of 78% of U.S. towns on civic life. The grade combines library visits per resident, community nonprofits per 1,000 residents and the share of adults 25–44 in volunteering groups. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Woodville.
Libraries: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024. Each library reports its own numbers. Distances are straight-line from the town center. “What your card is worth” uses typical retail prices and is an estimate, not an official figure.